Lagos is important to us, and I am happy that we have presented our flag to a capable candidate [Dr Ade] Dosunmu.
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…Describes it as a game changer in Nigeria’s democratic experience
A public policy analyst, Dr.
Ade Dosunmu has described the proposal by the Federal Government to grant full autonomy to the local governments in Nigeria as a welcome development and long overdue.
Dosunmu who disclosed this in a statement in Lagos on Tuesday commended the Federal government whose Attorney General Of The Federation, Lateef Fagbemi SAN had approached the Supreme Court to pursue this landmark initiative.
According to him, “There is no doubt that our Democratic journey has been very slow due to lack of autonomy for the third tier of government as practiced in other Democratic climes.”
Dosunmu, a former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, however, drew the attention of the Attorney General of the Federal to the ambiguity in the 4th schedule and section 7 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which recognised l